Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would… — Jeremy Bentham Accounts Copy Share Image
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham Good Copy Share Image
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light. — Jeremy Bentham Government Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — Jeremy Bentham Acquire Copy Share Image
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham Atheism Copy Share Image
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around… — Jeremy Bentham Cost Copy Share Image
“Where the penal provision, though established, is not conveyed to the notice of the person on whom it seems intended that it… — Jeremy Bentham Life Copy Share Image
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. — Jeremy Bentham Ignorance Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Ethics Copy Share Image
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. — Jeremy Bentham Bosoms Copy Share Image
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where… — Jeremy Bentham Censorship Copy Share Image
